You Can't Make This Stuff Up: Suspect in Vandalism Attack on New York Synagogue Is Democrat Activist

While the media continues their constant anti-Trump drumbeat and laments White House anti-Semitism, we now know that the Tree of Life Synagogue murderer was a leftist Trump-hater and that it is a Democrat activist, James Polite, a 26-year old, former employee of liberal Democrat New York City Council Speaker, Christine Quinn, and a volunteer for Barack Obama that has been arrested and charged with hate crimes and the vicious anti-semitic grafiti at a Brooklyn Synagogue.

While the media blames Trump and his supporters for their hate speech, it seems almost every act of violence, rage and anti-Semitism leads back to Democrats. Wonder how long it will be before that is posted above the fold on the New York Times front page?

Mr. Polite was arrested on Friday and charged with criminal mischief as a hate crime for writing "Die Jew Rats," "Hitler," "End It Now" and "Jew Better Be Ready" in marker on walls of the Union Temple of Brooklyn.

The police said surveillance video captured Mr. Polite, of Brooklyn, inside the synagogue.

He was taken into custody on Friday morning at the scene of a fire that had been set inside the coat room of Yeshiva Beth Hillel of Williamsburg, officials said.

Mr. Polite was charged with arson, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief - all as hate crimes - for setting fires at four other locations affiliated with the Jewish community, including another school. The police recognized Mr. Polite from the surveillance video at Union Temple.

The Union Temple of Brooklyn had been scheduled to host a party event for New York Democrats. The Daily Caller reports that Democrats, including New York's liar in chief, Governor Andrew Cuomo, had used the racist vandalism at the synagogue in political messages right up until the time of the arrest of the Democratic activist. Now those drums have gone silent.

NYPD arrests James Polite — the man they say is in this surveillance picture - in connection with anti Semitic graffiti found inside Union Temple in Prospect Heights. He’s believed to have also set fires outside schuls & yeshivas in Williamsburg @CBSNewYorkpic.twitter.com/WMm4UznAvf

But, as if the clouds of heaven simply decided to rain down irony, James Polite while working for speaker Quinn, had been assigned tasks that dealt with hate crimes. That’s got to hurt. Quinn issued a statement Saturday noting that she was “simply and utterly devastated,” and in a quick move for political deflection, suggested that perhaps Polite suffered from a mental health issue. Of course, after his arrest and when they found out he was a Democrat activist with ties to Quinn and Obama, suddenly he had to be mentally ill and was taken to a psychiatric ward for evaluation.

The NYT noted that Speaker Quinn and Polite met at "a gay pride rally for Barack Obama on the steps of City Hall in 2008."

In what has to be embaressing, The NYT had profiled Polite in December 2017, noting his work for Quinn and the party:

He interned with Ms. Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat, for several years, working on initiatives to combat hate crime, sexual assault and domestic violence. He also took part in her re-election campaign in 2009 and returned to help with her unsuccessful bid for mayor in 2013.

"James was the adopted child of the Quinn administration," she said. "And it wasn't just me. It was the entire City Council staff."

And just when you think the heavens have emptied of every bit of irony, suddenly the silver-lined clouds open up and rain down once again. Seems that Polite received help from a New York Times funded charity and from a philanthropic local couple. He applied to college at (wait for it . . .) Brandeis University, which was founded to provide education for Jewish students once excluded by the liberal Ivy League's antisemitic quotas.